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Don’t punk out and don’t quit.

Ben Horowitz

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You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Inspiration Needs
Here’s where we are and here’s what I didn’t recognize about us and about you when I made the decision, and now it is what it is.
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About Made Now
You know what the difference between a vision and a hallucination is? They call it a vision when other people can see it.
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Differences
There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.

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There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.
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Knowing Knowledge Gain Nothing
In life, you don’t have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you’re a CEO. CEOs aren’t born.
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Levels Nonsense Running
As companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult to manage and control. All kinds of problems can arise – security, quality and worms.
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Moving
It’s hard in daily life. It’s even harder in management because it’s the stress of the moment.

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It’s hard in daily life. It’s even harder in management because it’s the stress of the moment.
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Daily
The key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.
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Keys
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.

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I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Generally the reason they fail in the job is, you made some mistake in the hiring process in that you didn’t match… them to the needs of your company accurately enough. That’s the #1 reason this fails. And that’s generally a good place to start.
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Accurate Jobs
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Silver
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.

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As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs
The important thing about mobile is, everybody has a computer in their pocket. The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.
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Phones
Volatility and length, that’s the value on an option. 10 years on a startup stock, that’s a big valuable thing.

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Volatility and length, that’s the value on an option. 10 years on a startup stock, that’s a big valuable thing.
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Length Years
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Useless Valuable

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